Okla. lawmaker threatened with legal action for practicing free speech

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http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=72383
 
 

 
Oklahoma state lawmaker Sally Kern has had to obtain legal representation in the wake of a barrage of tens of thousands of hate-filled emails and threatened lawsuits after she spoke publicly about the dangers of the radical homosexual agenda.

During a recent speech at a Republican club meeting, Sooner State Representative Sally Kern said she was concerned that the homosexual agenda would destroy the nation and that the threat the movement poses is as big a threat to the nation as terrorism. She also told how young public school children are being indoctrinated into believing that the homosexual lifestyle is normal.
 
Reaction to her speech, which was posted on YouTube, was swift from homosexual activists. Kern said she received more than 27,000 emails to her office and home computers, many of them filled with profanity and vulgarity.
 
Now Kern is being represented by the Thomas More Law Center. Attorney Brian Rooney says his client has been threatened with legal action for expressing her First Amendment right to free speech. He believes homosexual activists will use the incident to push for hate crimes legislation.
 
"Really [it's] a ploy to try to intimidate Representative Kern in particular, and the state legislature in Oklahoma in general, to try to get these laws passed that favor them and end up criminalizing Christianity," he says.
 
Rooney explains that in addition to defending Kern's right to free speech, the Law Center wants to deliver a message to those threatening the lawmaker.
 
"[We're] making sure that these advocacy groups for the radical homosexuals know that a Christian public-interest law firm is involved, and that Representative Kern does not back down one iota from what she said; she stands by that," says the attorney. In addition, he says his firm wants those groups to know that "if there's any ill-conceived or misguided lawsuits against her that we will defend her free of charge."
 
Rooney says legal action may also be taken against some homosexual advocacy groups who erroneously reported that Kern's son was homosexual. Rooney says many media outlets reported that information, despite the fact that the homosexual groups did not have the correct name of Kern's son.
 
Four years ago, Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between one man and one woman.